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Re: What's Wrong With Newlines?

From Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: What's Wrong With Newlines?
Date 2019-03-30 00:21 +0000
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Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
> Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>>> Increasingly web forms for sending general messages to people 
>>> (usually in place of Email) seem to deliberately reject all the 
>>> newlines that I attempt to put into them.  It seems to be deliberate, 
>> 
>> It is deliberate.
>> 
>> The html textarea form field submits the line ending characters you 
>> type into the box to the server when the web form is posted.
> 
> Yes, I've never had any problem with disappearing newlines from
> textareas when designing pages myself, nor would I expect one.

Of course to put it into HTML the newlines have to be replaced with
paragraphs or line breaks. Easily done with functions like nl2br in
PHP though, and surely within the means of any developer for a major
website.

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What's Wrong With Newlines? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2019-03-29 01:59 +0000
  Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-03-28 23:31 -0400
    Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-29 23:22 +0000
      Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-03-29 21:58 -0300
        Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-30 11:23 +0000
        Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-30 09:02 -0400
        Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> - 2019-03-30 15:24 +0100
  Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-29 09:32 +0000
    Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-03-29 09:44 +0000
      Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-29 23:07 +0000
  Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-29 21:26 +0000
    Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-29 22:56 +0000
      Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2019-03-30 00:21 +0000
        Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-30 14:37 +0000
          Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2019-04-17 07:04 +0000
            Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-17 12:23 +0000
      Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-30 14:33 +0000
    Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2019-04-01 16:10 +0000

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